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I had a tag for “contracts” for story and article contracts that I wanted to keep for my records. For instance, I had a tag for “scrapbook” for notes that had things like my art and writing when I was a kid, as well as my kids’ art and school work. Fortunately, I had tagged these notes in Evernote in such a way as to make them easy to find. There were also notes that I knew I wanted to keep in digital format. Migrating notes that I know I want to keep in digital form

I also took the opportunity to reformat the note from how I had it in Evernote to make it a little easier for me to use. That note links to many other documents so it provided a quick guide for documents I wanted to move right away. Fortunately, I have a note in Evernote that collects all of these together making this initial migration pretty easy. These are things that I frequently access when filling out forms, for instance. These are things like official documents (birth certificates, car information, etc.). There exists a fairly small (50 or fewer) set of notes that I frequently access in Evernote. Migrating notes that I use frequently in Evernote

Migrate other notes only when I happen to need them in the context of some event in my life.

Migrate notes that I know I want to keep in digital form.

Migrate the notes I use frequently in Evernote.

Here is order in which I am migrating notes from Evernote to Obsidian: The way I do this curation is through a hierarchy of needs, or an order of operations. This is a slower process than a one-shot migration, but there is a lot of value in that curation step. My goal in migrating notes from Evernote to Obsidian is to curate the notes–pick and choose the ones that I really need, and leave everything else behind. Then, too, when I was putting every piece of paper into Evernote and then not using those notes ever, I was wasting a lot of time. There was a lot of noise cluttering the notes and that made it more difficult to find what I was looking for.

That was a big lesson I learned from my years going paperless with Evernote. Part of my reason for doing this is that I don’t need to be 100% paperless. Slow but steady wins the raceįirst off, for those thinking I have some magic solution to export all of my notes from Evernote and seamlessly import them into Obsidian, I have some bad news for you: I don’t. It might be useful for folks to review Episode 3, where I talked about how I emulate some of Evernote’s features in Obsidian. When I started this series, I talked about how I was looking to see how Obsidian would work as an alternative to Evernote as the place where I “remember everything.” I’ve spent quite a bit of time describing how I’ve been using Obsidian’s functions and features to works toward this goal, but so far I haven’t really touched on how I have been migrating notes from Evernote to Obsidian.

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Welcome to my blog series, “ Practically Paperless with Obsidian.” For an overview of this series, please see Episode 0: Series Overview.